Time to implement new EU toolkit for women’s rights NGOs

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Euclid Network (EN) has been a partner in the WeGO! project for the last two years and is pleased to present the WeGO! toolkit. The aim of the toolkit is to provide women’s rights NGOs with concrete tools to support victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) in their personal and economic empowerment.

It is the result of peer exchanges among NGOs and external experts through three mutual learning events as well as research activities, which identified key intervention areas. A pilot version of the toolkit was tested by the NGOs and allowed the project to assess the effectiveness of tools and adjust the toolkit.

In the toolkit, WeGO! advocates for five core coaching skills that would enable social workers in women’s rights NGOs to support women to get a job:

Building rapport

Deeper listening

Using intuition

Asking questions

Giving supportive feedback

The WeGO! toolkit also provides a set of tools which social workers can use to promote economic empowerment of women who have been victims of intimate partner violence, i.e. clients of the women’s rights NGOs – under the following objectives:

To recover women’s personal resources and translate them into competences

To define a professional plan

To support some critical areas/competences for the empowerment of IPV survivors

To raise gender awareness

To restore social networks and promote collective empowerment

To develop job searching skills safely

To develop ICT skills safely

To develop entrepreneurship skills

Under the last objectives of developing entrepreneurial skills, EN proposed simple tools for clients’ to evaluate their own creativity and test whether their own ideas are worth pursuing as a business. For those wanting to go further, the EU’s ENTRECOMP framework also sets out 15 entrepreneurial skills under three headings: (1) Spotting ideas and opportunities; (2) Mobilizing resources and (3) Moving into action.

Women’s rights NGOs can get support and advice from the project partners on implementing the toolkit. Just get in touch with marta.bruschi@euclidnetwork.eu